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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-25
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
From North to South,

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
Leaving your city Saturday morning. the
10Th, where the ground was frozen and the peo-
pie dashed by the tail of q Dakota blizzard to
such degree that winter wraps were still neces-
sary for comfort, found on reaching this city,
that the gardens had been made the red bud
and dogwood arrayed in all their beauty. which
is always sure sign with farmers that corn
should be planted as, in fact it is in this State.
The peach and apple-trees give promise of an
abundant crop, and the month of June will
probably see an abundance of peaches on the
table for consumption. The forest trees have put
on their summer livery, and the preparation for a
cotton crop was never more extensive and the
future more promising for that great Southern
staple. 1t is true the crop was large last year
and the price is now low. but then labor is cheap
and 80 is the land which produces it. and. after
ALL it is the planters only reliance for
income. and he clings to it. as he should. for his
soil is better adapted to the culture of cotton
than anything else, and his hands know how to
cultivate and pick cotton, and do not understand
Northern methods of culture or the inn
proved implements which necessary
to success in raising Northern crops We
see little corn and less wheat growing in
the State, first, because of ignorance Of the i'm
proved methods of culture, and secondly, be-
cause the soil and climate are better adapted to
cotton, which can be sold, and these staples pur-
chased from the Northern farmer, together
with other SUPPLIES.
It has been but few years since these South
ern statesmen told US that il slavery should be
abolished the negro would not work, and as
white people could not work in the cotton field,
the production would cease. But it so happens
that last year saw million and h6lf more bales
Of cotton than produced in any year while
slavery existed. The excuses invented for
the preparation of human slavery were often
| ingenious but always without any sound founda-
tion and it is even surprise to this generation.
and will be much greater to those which shall
! come after it, how 1t was possible to continue
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anything about it. but he appears in his manner
to be ambitious. and his friends say he is awfully
anxious to obtain the place.
Eb henderson's Office is the headquarters now
for the hungry horde from the Hoosier State
1t is here they gather every morning by the
dozen.
Jap Turpen, an Indiana newspaper writer, who
WAS some time ago appointed special pension
agent for the Pension Bureau. leaves for Indi-
annapolis tonight for brief season OF recreation
His health is quite poor, and it is probable that
he will be sent to New Mexico in order to afford
him an opportunity to recuperate.
Commissioner Edgerton has gone to Fort
Wayne on private business From there he will
60 to Chicago to aid Commissioner Lyman in
conducting an examination for the departmental
service on the 10Th proximo. While in Chicago
the commissioners will investigate the charges
OF violation of the civil-service law filed by the
Civil-service League Of that city against the
collector of the port. Inquiry will also be made
into the manner in which the law is executed by
the postmaster at Chicago
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A TYPICAL CASE.
How the Juvenile Brain Is Forced by the
Modern school System.

How the Juvenile Brain Is Forced by the
Modern School System.
Dr. w. A. Hammond, in Popular Science Monthly.
Not very long ago lady of this city brought
her little daughter, twelve years of age, to see
me professionally. The child was on her way to
school. and had with her large satchel full of
books. She was pale, tall and thin. The mus
cles of her face twitched convulsively. and she
could not keep her hands and feet still. She was
suffering from chorea or st. Vitus Dance and
in addition had almost constant headache and
other symptoms Of nervous arrangement. In the
course of my examination / asked her to empty
her satchel of the books it contained, and which,
as she informed me. she had been studying that
morning and the night before This is the list:
l. An English grammar. 2 A scholars COM
panion. 3. An arithmetic A geography
8. history of the United States G. An ele-
rnentary guide to astronomy. Z. A temperance
nh ys;;oii0gy and hygiene whatever that may be.
s. A method of learning French. g. French
reading book.
Nine in all--nine different objects of knowl-
edge which that poor child was required to
study between tho hours Of 3 in the afternoon
of one day and Gin the morning of the following
day Allowing one hour for dinner. half an
hour for breakfast. an hour for undressing at
night and dressing in the morning, an hour for
going home and returning to school. and eight
hours for sleep land less than this will not suf-
Ace for a growing boy or girl-it had better De
nine or teu), and we have six hours and a half
left in which to study nine different branches of
and gentlemen should retire to some quiet nook,
and, with your well-developed and trained
brains and experienced minds, should try to
study nine unfamiliar subjects OF knowledge in
six hours and half, would you think 1t strange
if at the end of that time you should
somewhat mix matters, and imagine that
Hong Kong is the name of lunar
volcano, that the Continental Congress is of
the parts of speech, and that the ductus COM
NUNS choledechus is situated on Psssamaquod-
DIV bav? She showed no such confusion of ideas
| She had studied her lessons we'll, but she had
| done SO at the expense Of her brain substance.
| In little while, and English grammar. geogra-
| been like the "subseauent proceedings in Bret
Harte's poem, they would have interested her
| no more / say she had learned her lessons at
| the expense of her brain distance. This is no
| flower of speech, but sober fact. A very sim
| pie examination enabled to satisfy myself
| that she was living on her brain capital instead
! of her brain income. Her expenditures were
| greater than her receipts, and brain bankruptcy
was staring her in the face.
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for centuries such villainous wrong. II his
tory shall tell the truth it must say that the
Democratic party became the watchdog to
guard the system from danger and insure Its
perpetuity, and when the danger OF its over
throw became imminent resolved to inaueurate
great war for its protection Having
doEe this and toen defeated the party
has since had the effrontsry to
ask the people to place il in power once more.
and they have done so. X is said history repeats
itself, but. really there is parallel for this.
Those who took sides against their country in
the revolutionary war were only too glad to get
out of their country on any terms, and under
the protection of the British flag The Demo
cratic party, however, now proposes to govern
and control that which it did its utmost to de-
stroy-thc Union of the States-and all who
remind the party of this circumstance are ac-
cused of waving the bloody shirt"
| visited the Capitol day and found the
solons busy grinding out laws after the manner
OF their brethren in Indiana. There are no
Green Smiths in the chair of either house, and
no Bulgers and other DULLES guarding the doors
and enacting the disgraceful scenes witnessed at
the Capitol of your State during the past winter
OF course all these legislators who had attained
sufficient age took up arms against their govern
ment In the late war, but now they in favor
of the ''old flag" (which proudly waves over the
building). and ian appropriation" but more es-
pecially the latter. When / am compelled to
bestow Office and emolument, and have to choose
between rebel and Northern copperhead, my
Suffrage Will Oh cast IN favor or the former.
The edifice, INTELLECTUALLY. seems to be .
cross between q country schoolhouse ard q
church. and has come down from the antebe
lum days to the present generation. It is guard
ed by mounted cannon placed by the authori-
ties at convenient angles of the public square,
but which might az well be Quaker guns for
any practical use. suppose they were there in
position when this State formed a part of the
dominions of Jefferson Davis. ard were made to
belch forth the JOY of the people at the news Of
| n1A fac md he T1pinn
armies, who were struggling under great diff
culties to maintain the Union of the States
Times have changed, and some people have
short memories. but there people still living
who know what it cost to befriend the country
IN the time of peril, and they will insist on keep
ing alive the memory of those who acted the
part of patriots in that contest. NJ L. BUNDY.
LITTLE Rock, Ark March %.
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Literary Notes.

Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holly,
author of 'Josiah Aliens Wife," is announced
by Hubbard Brothers.
Hon. Carl Schnrzs life of Henry Clay, in the
American Statesmen Series is to be in two
volumes; it will be issued soon by Houghton,
Mifflin & Co
There will be two editions of "The Century
Dictionary" one of ready reference size, with
two columns to the page. the other edition de
luxe, in three columns, printed on a much larger
page.
Ticknor & Co. announce the publication of a
series of light fiction in paper covers. for leisure
hour and summer reading The series will in
clude works by Blanche Howard, Edgar Faw-
cett, E. W. Howe, Barrett Wendell, and Virginia
W. johnson. aasa
A ns~-saition of Rev. DR.. Lyman Ahbotts
life of Henry Ward Beecher bringing the nara
tive down to the end of Mr. Beecher's career
will be ready soon by Funk Sc Wagnalls. Rev.
S. B. Halliday will assist DIR. Abbott in COM
plotting the work.
The Athen8um thinks it worth while to note
that in "The Merry Men" Mr.. Stevenson de-
scribes the Hebric IS without the borrowing of
a single touch from Mr. William Black" The
Critic says: This is very much like eompli-
mentine Hawthorne on not copying from Mr. N.
P. Willis"
Mr.. William D. Howells has just finished a
volume on Modern Italian Poets.' which Har-
per & Brothers will publish In the course of a
few weeks. It begins with Parini and Alferi,
and includes al! the poets down to 1870. Mr..
Howells embellishes his work with metrical
TRANSACTIONS from the poets whom he critcises.
A biographical dictionary, to include accounts
of the lives of all men and women of note
throughout the world during the period from
1900 to 1887, is announced by Cassell & Co. 1t
will be in one large volume entitled Celebrities
of the Century. The American contributions
are to be- prepared under the supervision OF
American writers.
To supply The demand of American readers
for French edition of Lies Miserab,es." VIM.
r. Jenkins of New York, has determined to
issue q new and carefully revised edition in five
12mo volumes printed from new and very clear
long primer type, at a very low price ($4 SO in
paper covers, and Sc so for the set in cloth
The first volume, Famine" will be ready by
the middle of April, and the succeeding volumes
are to be issued at intervals when ready.
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INDIANA PEOPLE.

Personal and Other Gossip Concerning In
dianians at the National Capital.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator Voorhees,
said to-day that he expected to leave for Now
York day after tomorrow. with his daughter,
Miss Hattie, and after brief season of rest will
probably 60 to Indiana.
General George B. Williams, of Lafayette,
has made up his mind to permanently reside in
Washington. A few days ago he purchased the
house on Rhode Island avenue formerly occu-
pied by the Austrian legation, aud. 1t is said
will take possession in two months. The price
paid for this house is said to be 1000. 1t is
fine mansion, located in the most fashionable
part of the city. General and Mrs. Williams
will be a welcome and cisver addition to the at
tractive society of the Genital City.
Judge Holman arrived mere yesterday from his
home at Aurora, Ind, and has been busy in the
departments to-day. Among other things he
wants is to get an additional allowance for Col
lector of Internal Revenue Hunter.
The wife Of the late VIce-president Hendricks
arrived in the city yesterday 1t is given out that
she came to see Gen. Miles. an old friend of her
late husband, who is quite i'll. Mrs. Hendricks
is stopping at the home of her relative ex-
Commissioner Morgan. One of her friends says,
however, that the object of her visit here at tn is
time is to try and get some of her friends taken
care Of by the administration, but probably this
Is on speculation. She left for home to-day
Ex-Coneressman Ward is still in the city.
They say it is not probable that he will ever re-
turn to Indiana to live. Two of his daughters
have been provided with positions in the Treas
urv Department, and the Judge himself is an
aspirant for an appointive position. His friends
are anxious that he should receive something.
tits said that the new chief clerk Of the In
terror Department will be an Indiana man. This
posltion has been vacant for nearly two months,
but the Secretary of the Interior does not ap.
pear to be able to find capable Democrat who
can fill the position.
There is some talk that Third Auditor John s.
Williams will be Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury when Mr. Fairchild is promoted to the
position Of Secretary, which now seems TO be
assured Mr. Williams says he does not know
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ORDNANCE AND ARMOR PLATES.

An Establishment That Will Soon he Pre-
pared to Furnish All That May BE Needed.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
WASHINGTON, March 24-The indications are
that the United States will soon be equipped to
manufacture heavy ordnance and armor plates
equal to any made in the world. While Mr..
Randall was snarling over the Notifications
bill and quarreling with Senator Dawes as to
whether the guns to be used should be made of
iron OF steel, Secretary Whitney was perfecting
his plans for expanding the amount heretofore
appropriated by Congress in securing steel
ordnance of the highest quality. In spite of the
fact that few manufacturers who think they
can turn out cast iron cannon still believe that
iron is the metal for ordnance for modern war
fare. the best posted military men long ago de-
cided that steel is the metal above all others
for this use. The trouble has been, in the past
that concern in the United States possessed
the necessary plant to warrant it in making an
effort to control the manufacture of steel to be
used in armor plates and heavy guns. AS soon
as Secretary Whitney decided upon steel, and
rp4-hliely- I'D ertsed, inviting proposals, the
Bethlehem iron works. of Bethlehem, Pa. be-
gan the erection of the necessary buildings and
the perfection of the necessary machinery to en-
able them to turn out such steel as was required
for the manufacture of the armament of the
new cruisers. The company has expended. or
has contracted to expend, 81 500, 900 in this
plant, and has set up hammer weighing 100
tons. which is the largest in the United States.
This company believes that it will be able to
compete with any in the world its
plant is perfected. It will probably secure the
contract for which bids were opened on Tuesday
last. as the advertisement expressly stipulated
that the contract for forgines would 60 to the
same concern TO which was awarded the contract
for armor plates. The Bethlehem company was
the only bidding both. 1t is the only
concern in the United States which has the
facilities for manufacturing the class of steel
necessary for this work. Secretary Whitney
has about Sc DOC. 600 at his disposal for the man.
ufacture of heavy guns, which was provided IN
the last naval bill. He will in all probability
proceed to advertise for proposals for supplying
guns under this appropriation. The result will
doubtless DO that with the Washington navy
yard turned into an ordnance foundry, the Beth
lehem works will eventually become depot for
supplies for ordnance steel, and in future there
need be no wrangliEg in Congress over the forti
fcations bill, with steel plant within tie
United States capable of supplying any amount
that may De necessary. the problem what shall
car guns be made Of will be solved.
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THE PRESIDENTS ENDICOTT.
He Hasn't Resigned, but There Would
BeNo Mourning if He SHOULD Retire.
An Establishment That Will Shortly Be Ready
to Supply Steel for Heavy Guns and Ar
NOR Plates-Gossip About Indianians.
SECRETARY ENDICOTT.

He Has Not Resigned, but Could Save the
President Trouble by Doing So at Once.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, March, % Secretary Endicott
has not yet resigned, and there are no immediate
prospects Of his intention to do so. The Presi-
dent was honestly sorry to lose his friend and
ally, Secretary Manning. He was the one man
in the Cabinet upon whom Mr.. Cleveland felt
that he could lean. He has not another friend
left there. 1t is ar open secret that his relations
with Mr. Endicott are. while courteous, far
from cordial He is not at all satisfied with the
course of his Secretary of War AS far as Mr.
Endicott's administration of the affairs of the
department are concerned, there is no fault to
find. In many respects he has improved the
service. and for this he is entitled to commenda-
ton. But, unfortunately, he has little knowl-
edge Of men. and is absolutely lacking
in that prerequisite of public men-tact
Mr. ELdicott has repeatedly run counter to the
traditions of the department, and has stirred up
untold strife between the purely civil branch Of
the service and the military arm. He does not
Seem to realize that the officers Of the staff are
entitle to the consideration which they have
always received from the Secretary in the past,
and in consequence he has ON hand at all times
decorous but very annoying quarrel with one
Or ihs other. Then, too, he has the faculty Of
offending public men to such degree as Go en-
oarrass the President constantly. Scarcely a
week passes that complaint is not made against
him By some personal or political friend of the
President All these facts have combined to
"scur' the President toward his Secretary of
War. He is not likely to ask for Mr.. Endisotts
resignation, but if that gentleman happens to
cast his eye on the political weather glass he
will surely see the indications" In that event.
he may decide to relieve the President of embar-
rassment and to tender his resignation. 1t needs
prophet to predict that it would be accepted
within an hour after it's receipt
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General Notes.

WASHINGTON. March A-Oscar S. Straus,
the newly-appointed minister to Turkey, is a
prominent New York importer. and was pres-
dent of the Cleveland and Hendricks Business
Mems Club in 1884
Professor j. r. Dodge. statistcian of the De-
partmens of Agriculture, left Washington this
afternoon for New York. and will sail for
Europe on the Servia on Saturday. Professor
Dodge goes to Rome as delegate to the inter-
national statistical convention, which meets
there in April
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Amendments by the President.

WASHINGTON, March "a The President this
afternoon appointed Oscar S. Straus, of New
York, to be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary Of the United States to Turkey;
Harold Marsh Sewall of Maine. consul general
Of the United States at Apia. and N. j. George,
of Tennessee, consul of the United States at
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
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AUCTION SALES.


d AL ESTATE AT AUCTION-ON WEDNES.
IL day, March 80. at 2 o'clock p. m, the prem.
Uses. will sell beautiful cottage frame house.
four cellar. cistern, WELL wood houses also
small house on the of lot Lot 33x12O. known
as No. I54 Agnes street. Terms very easy, like pay
ing rent. Title perfect. w. E. MICK & co.
L. N. PERRY Auctoneer.
DEAL ESTATE AT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
III street business property-On Tuesday. March
20, at 2 o'clock p. on the premises. will sell
good two story brick business house, known No.
319 East Washington street. cellar under the entire
house lot lS feet front extending back the rail
road tracks. Title perfect and ncumbrance.
Terms one-ffth cash. balance, one two three and
four years. w. E. MICK & co.
L. N. PERRY, Auctioneer
ZEAL ESTATE AT AUCTION-WASHINGTON
III street business property On Monday, March
%, at o'clock o. M. the premises will sell at
public auction the threestory brick business house
known 1875 and 1877 East Washington street. con
tanning two business rooms and twelve rooms in the
second and third stories; cellar under the entire
house, lot 3334x195 extending back to Pearl street
This property is located in square No. g. being be
tween Alabama and New Jersey streets; ncum
Drance, and title perfect. Terms One-fourth cash
balance in one. and three years at per TIL
property is under rent at ST. ,O92 per annum
w. E. MICK & co. L. n. PERRY, Auctioneer.
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An interesting contribution to this issue is
suppressed chapter of history by Edmund
Kirke, the record from which the part was omit
ted having been printed in the Atlantic in 1864.
1t gives detailed account of the action taken
by President Lincoln in the peace negotiations
onducted by Colonel jacques and j. r. Gill
more, "Kirke" himself. with Jefferson Davis, a
matter concerning which there was much inter
With all its other attractions of this month,
however, this issue of the Atlantic is pre-emi-
nently a Holmes number, containing, as it does,
a fine etched portrait of the Autocrat, in addi
ton to the delightful "reminiscences Of his Euro
pean tour. The apology made for entering into
personal details in his account of this tour when
the generation of readers for whom he first
wrote has in part passed away, and the late
corners do not perhaps, regard him with affec
ton or even tolerance, is pathetic, although
based on an unfounded fear. Il am not" he
saws, ''as yet the solitary survivor of my litera
ry contemporaries, and. rememb ering who my
few coevals are. it may we'll be hoped that
shall not be. But feel lonely very lonely, in
the pages through which l wander These
are new names in the midst Of which find my
own"
The complete novel given by the April Lip
pincott is entitled Douglas Duam." Edgar
his experiences as public lecturer is entertain
ing, and may we'll De instructive to the youth con-
templatng such a career My Lady's Maid"
is an amusing sketch. which touches upon a
phase of the servant-girl question, and Incl
dentally holds up the society column of the
far Western newspaper to rdicule.
General Adam Badeau opens a series of war
sketches for boys and girls in the St. Nicholas,